Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The team at Cobra teased and tantalised us a couple of weeks ago with some mysterious artwork (as shown above) from a new project they have in production. Scottishgames is very proud to announce, exclusively (seriously. We're the first anywhere) that the artwork in question is for the sequel to Cobra's ridiculously addictive tower defence …
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Word Trick, Outplay Entertainment's first title for Apple iOS is now live on the App Store in the US, UK, Canada and Europe. The game is new take on the classic board game formula. Players take it in turns to make the highest scoring words they can from a selection of eight letters. The board …
The Courier is reporting that Dundee's Seabraes Yards, the digital media hub of the city, with commanding views over the Tay bridges, and err, Tesco, may be getting a 'container city' aimed at giving start-up companies low cost office space. The number of freelancers, indie studios and start ups is growing rapidly and Dundee has …
Whatever will they think of next? Cobra has started promoting a forthcoming game - BEFORE IT'S EVEN RELEASED! Their so-called promotion will be looked upon by the wider industry with the greatest disapprobation and their concept will be stolen, pirated and released upon the lawless streets of the world before they can draw breath. Will …
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Tag's first title for its casual/social TagPlay label, Funpark Friends, has been nominated in the Best Social Games category in the 2012 International Mobile Games Awards, which are announced that the Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona at the end of February. Congratulations to the team and we'll all keep our fingers crossed …
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A team from Dundee's Abertay University has picked up first prize in the Samsung bada Student Developer Challenge. The competition challenged teams of students to create new games for Samsung's app store - starting with a gruelling 24 hour game jam. Tom DeMajo, Erin Michno and Ian Reynolds, collectively known as Quartic Llama, built Moeba, …
Reproduced in whole, thanks to it being pretty much awesome. A celebration and a challenge. After the entire games industry told Denki that Quarrel wouldn't work on console - can we make it a hit? They deserve it, it's a damn fine game. Throw your weight behind this, please. Buy it, share it, tell people …
A lovely cup of tea, obviously. Which is the main component of Cobra's dreamy Storm In A Teacup, which is now available on Steam to download for your PC or Mac. If you've not come across the game before, it's a charming, whimsical and slightly surreal platformer in which a young lap in a teacup …
The local chapter of STV popped into the Dundee HQ of Outplay Entertainment earlier this week to take a look at what the company's working on and ponder the ongoing evolution of the games business. Superstar reporter Holly Hamilton spoke to senior producer Tone Brennan and a handsome passerby to ask how the industry has …
Quarrel, the highly regarded word game from Denki hit the iOS market towards the end of 2011. It proved quite popular with critics and players. It was awarded excellent scores and hit several 'game of the year' round ups. And scored a BAFTA. Now Quarrel is coming to Xbox. The game's original incarnation will finally …
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